Shirt construction



April 10, 1956 H. L. PARETS 2,740,967

SHIRT CONSTRUCTION Filed Jan. 25, 1954 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 FIG. I.

INVENTOR HrfierZL.ParefS ATTORNEYS April 1956 H. L. PARETS SHIRT CONSTRUCTION 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Jan. 25, 1954 INVENTOR Herfieri L.Pare is @MZ IFMW M ATTORNEYS United States Patent SHIRT CONSTRUCTION Herbert L. Parets, Loudonville, N. Y. Application January 25, 1954, Serial No. 405,675 2 Claims. (Cl. 2-139 This invention relates to garment construction, and more particularly to an improved shirt construction Wherein the collar is detachably secured thereto by a slide fastener.

While slide fasteners have been employed heretofore for detachably securing collars to shirts, prior constructions of this nature have been relatively complicated with' consequently high manufacturing expense. Additionally, in most prior constructions the slide fastener has not been completely concealed. Consequently, in some instances the fastener was exposed to view and in other instances the hardinterlocking parts of the fastener irritated the neck of a wearer.

Accordingly, it is an object of thisinvention to provide an improved construction for detachably securing a collar to a shirt with a slide fastener. i

It is another object of this invention to provide a shirt having a collar that is detachably secured thereto by a slide fastener and wherein the construction is of the utmost simplicity with consequent manufacturing economics.

It is still another object of this invention to provide an improved shirt construction having a collar detachably secured thereto by aslide fastener and wherein both the inner and outer sides of the fastener are concealed.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the following description and accompanying drawings, in which:

2,740,967 Patented Apr. 10, 1 956 Figure 1 is a fragmentary front view of a shirt embodying this invention, the shirt being shown buttoned at the neck.

Figure 2 is a view corresponding to Figure 1, but with the neck of the shirt being shown unbuttoned and opened for sports wear.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary view of a portion of the inner side of the shirt and collar shown in Figure 1, with parts being flattened out for clearness of illustration.

Figure 4 is an enlarged sectional view taken on lines i4 of Figure 3. j

Figure 5 is an enlarged sectional view taken on lines 5-5 of Figure 3.

Figure 6 is a view corresponding to Figure 3, but with a portion broken away and another portion rolled back to illustrate details more clearly.

Figure 7 is a fragmentary view of the outer side of the collar and shirt construction shown in Figure l, but with the parts being flattened out and rolled back to illustrate details.

Referring now to the drawings, there is shown a shirt having a body portion 10 to which a collar 12 is detachably secured by a conventional slide fastener 14. The fastener 14 comprises two flexible tapes 16 and 18, one attached to the body portion 10 and the other to the collar 12, having two interlocking series of rigid projections 26 along their adjacent edges. The two series of projections 20 are moved into and out of interlocking relation by the usual slider 22 (Figure 7). The body material, i. e., of single-ply construction, and at the neck portion of the shirt a marginal edge portion of the material is turned inwardly and secured by a single line of stitching 24 to form an outer flap 26, as best shown in Figure 4. The tape 16 of the fastener is secured to the inner side of the neck portion of the shirt by the same line of stitching 24 securing the flap 26, so that most of that part of the tape 16 extending above the line of stitching 24 isconcealed exteriorly by the flap 26.

The collar 12 of the shirt is of two-ply construction, and around its entire periphery, save along the neck edge thereof, the marginal edge portions of the plies 28 are inturned and blind seamed at 30, as is best shown in Figure 4. Along the neck edge of the collar 12, edge portions of the two plies 28 are turned inwardly and secured by a line of stitching SZ extending through both plies 28 to form a two-flapped pocket 34. The other tape 18 of the slide fastener 14 is secured between the two flaps 36 and 38 of and within the pocket 34 by the same line of stitching 32 securing the pocket flaps, as is best shown in Figure 4. The combined widths of the neck portion flap 26 and the outer flap 36 of the pocket 34 on the collar 12 are at least as large as' the combined widths of the free parts of the two tapes 16 and 18 that extend beyond their respective lines of stitching 24 and 32, so that when the collar is attached to the neck portion of the shirt by the slide fastener 14, the exterior of the fastener is completely concealed by the flaps 26 and 36. At the same time, it will be seen that the inner flap 38 of the collar pocket 34 overlies the inner side of the free part of the tape 18 and also depends some What below the interlocking projections 29 on the tape 16 when the fastener is closed, so that the neck of the wearer is completely protected against irritation by the hard or rigid interlocking parts of the fastener.

The body portion 10 of the shirt has a conventional front defined by two panels 40 that overlap at the center and are secured together by buttons 42, or other appropriate fasteners. At their overlapping edges, the two front panels 4% are provided with inturned portions of material to form relatively wide bands or strips 44 that provide finished lapels when the shirt is unbuttoned at the neck for sports wear, as shown in Figure 2. At their upper edges, these bands 44 have inturned marginal edge portions that form a part of the neck portion of the shirt and are coextensive with and overlie the inner sides of relatively short end sections of the fastener 16 on the neck portion. These inturned marginal edge portions are secured by the line of stitching 24 to form with the outer flap 26 a two-fiapped pocket 46 within which the two end sections of the tape 16 are concealed. It thus will be seen that when the shirt is unbuttoned for sports wear, as shown in Figure 2, the pockets 46, together with the pocket 34 on the collar 10, effectively conceals the interior of the two end sections of the fastener 14 from view.

It thus will be seen that the objects of the invention have been fully and eflectively accomplished by providing a slide fastener construction for detachably securing a collar to a shirt wherein no facing strips are used and only the materials forming the collar and the body of the shirt are employed for securing an effective concealment of the slide fastener. It also Will be seen that the two tapes of the fastener can be secured with a minimum of labor to both the body of the shirt and to the collar during manufacture thereof.

While a specific embodiment of the invention has been shown and described for the. purposes of illustrating the principles of the invention, it will be realized that various changes can be made in such embodiment without departing from such principles. Accordingly, this invention includes all modifications encompassed within the spirit and scope of the following claims.

I claim:

1. In a shirt the combination comprising: a bodyv having a neck portion the entire marginal edge portion of which is inturned and seamed to define a flap of appreciable width; a slide fastener tape extending around the inner side of and secured to said neck portion by the line of seaming at said edge portion, said tape having a free section above its line of attachment substantially coextensive with and concealed exteriorly by said flap; a detachable collar having a two-fiapped pocket at the edge thereof attachable to said neck portion; a mating slide fastener tape extending within and secured between the flaps of said pocket and having a free section above its line of attachment within said pocket, the combined widths of said neck portion flap and the outer flap of said pocket being at least as large as the combined widths of said tape sections to conceal the latter when joined, the front of said shirt having overlapping edges provided with inturned, marginal portions, the upper edge portions of which are coextensive with said neck portion and interiorly overlie the end sections of said neck portion tape, said upper edge portions being secured to said tape and said neck portion by said line of seaming to form, with said neck portion flap, two-flapped pockets concealing said tape end sections.

In a shirt the combination comprising: a body having a neck portion; a separate collar; and a slide fastener detachably securing said collar to said neck portion, one tape of said fastener extending around and being secured to the inner side of said neck portion below the upper edge thereof whereby a marginal portion of said edge forms a flap overlying a free section of said tape above its line of attachment, said collar having a two-flapped pocket at the edge thereof attachable to said neck portion and the other tape of said fastener extending within and being secured between the fiaps of said pocket and having a free section above its line of attachment within said pocket, the combined widths of said neck portion flap and the outer flap of said pocket being at least as large as the combined widths of said free tape sections for concealment of the outer side of said fastener, the width of the inner fiap of said pocket being greater than that of the free section of said other tape for substantially covering the joined edges of said tapes, said neck portion flap being of at least two-ply construction and formed by an inturned marginal edge portion secured by a line of stitching, said stitching also securing said one tape to said neck portion, and wherein the shirt front has overlapping edges provided with inturned marginal portions, the upper edge portions of which are coextensive with said neck portion of the shirt and interiorly overlie the end sections of said one tape, and a line of stitching securing said upper edge portions to said tape end sections to form, with said neck portion flap, two-fiapped pockets concealing said end sections of said one tape.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,266,910 Rosenfeld Dec. 23, 1941 2,319,875 Michel May 25, 1943 2,646,570 Rinehart et al. July 28, 1953 FOREIGN PATENTS 285,106 Switzerland Dec. 1, 1952 

